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Concluding Thoughts: What Does Recentering LGBT-Parent Families Mean for Family Studies?

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" we posed the question of what might occur when we use research on LGBT-parent families, and queer and intersectional lenses, to inform the field [family studies] writ large. Many fascinating questions arise."

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Self-Reflexive Transformational Pedagogy

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Integrating queer and intersectional frameworks in family theories curricula requires deep and engaged self-reflexivity, a process undergirding our model for transformational pedagogy. Here,we present our definition of transformative pedagogy, a process we have envisioned as having five elements of moving into and within critical engagement.

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Transformative Critical Pedagogy in Family Theory

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We discuss how to move the family studies field and the teaching of family theories from covering the "facts" that LGBT-parent families exist to a critical conversation that incorporates conceptual tools, language, and theoretical insights from queer and intersectionality theories.

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Asking the Question "who benefits" is critical

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For many of us who have been raised to understand and embrace our relationships to our ethnic, racial, or class groups, research conducted by an individually oriented outsider is automatically suspect. The community-wide sensitivity about potential researcher misconduct needs to be addressed in the earliest stages of interaction.

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Are Feminist Fraudulent Feelings Useful?

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We think the repeated expression of feminist scholars who doubt whether their own work is "feminist enough" or whether they produce "partially feminist" work is indicative of critical insightthese doubts operate as signifiers to push deeper, to take questions further, thus enabling a richer, more complex analysis.